Waukee swims past Ankeny

Thursday

Sep 19, 2013 at 11:57 AM

Waukee won 10 events and pulled away from Ankeny with a 117-66 victory at the Waukee YMCA on Tuesday.

The Warriors avenged a narrow 86-84 loss to the Hawks from last season.

"It was really our most disappointing loss," coach Shelley Twigg said. "After the conference realignment, we were hoping to be at the top of our new conference last year. However, that didn’t happen with that loss.

"We had a very focused mindset going into Tuesday, knowing that we had to swim really well without any mistakes to guarantee us a win."

The Warriors did just that with a sweep of the relays. Maddy Bridges, Tori Bussanmas, Maddie Gehrke and Camryn Somers wone the 200-yard medley relay in a season-best time of 1 minute, 54.06 seconds, with more than a 1-second margin of victory. Somers, Zoe Bussanmas, Jenny Brown and Gehrke won the 200 freestyle in 1:42.63, and Brown, Maddie McCormick, Lindey Carlson and Ellie Blazenko were victorious in the 400 freestyle relay in 3:55.47.

Brown nabbed individual victories in the 200 freestyle (2:04.96) and the 500 freestyle (5:28.35). Gehrke won the 200 individual medley in 2:18.98 and the 100 butterfly in 58.49, and Somers won the 50 freestyle with a time of 25.58.

Other victories came from Zoe Bussanmas in the 100 freestyle (58.18) and Maddie Piechowski in the diving competition (190.15).

"We are definitely feeling good about what we have accomplished so far this year," Twigg said. "We are not looking past Southeast Polk on Oct. 15, but a win over Ankeny gets us one more win closer to the top of the conference."